Well this is our last destination and today is the last day of our 3 month tour of India. Calcutta had surprised us both, we we're not expecting much from the city but have been surprised by the London style streets, pavements and buildings and by the amount of things to see and do. This city is rather busy but has been very easy to move around in, tasks that we have had to do here would have taken days in other cities, but here we have been able to accomplish ...

Hello again, we are actually now in Calcutta. We weren't very excited about coming here, however we were wrong. From first impressions the city seems to be really easy to navigate with lots going on and limited hassle. In places the streets are really wide, with tall buildings on either side and traffic that appears to pay at least a little notice to traffic lights and lanes. Tomorrow we're going to have a bit more of an explore, hopefully it will live up to init...

Camels dancing and moustache twirling. We are now in the middle of the mayhem of the Pushkar camel fair. As you can imagine there are a lot of camels, 30,000 apparently, and also many cows, horses, performing monkeys, tightrope walkers, hawkers and tourists and pilgrims. All of this is set in Pushkar, a really pretty and small town with winding streets, which are usually peaceful but are now full of people. Despite the number of people, the fair is really inte...

Very busy, very smelly and very smoggy. Where only here for 20 hours, but managed to get in about 5 agruments about money and eat a rubbish meal. Will have to go back at some point as we leave from here to Kalkutta and I guess see some of the sights :-(

Hello, all. After leaving Shimla we decided we wanted more mountain action, so took a bus for a whopping 10 hours to Manali. Manali was amazing, if a little cold - snow capped mountains everywhere we looked. A few days in we took a bus to the Rohtang Pass, 4065m high, where we admired the glacial scenery and played in the snow - absolute bliss! Overall we spent a week in Manali, exploring the local scenery, crossing glacial rivers, watching the leaves turn col...